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Quite impressive to build so many different tools, but I feel it's procrastination. Having a super customised calendar, drawing app, todo etc is going to impro
by haihaibye 6y ago
Quite impressive to build so many different tools, but I feel it's procrastination.
Having a super customised calendar, drawing app, todo etc is going to improve productivity by what,10%?
And building all these tools is many months to a year's work?
What if they'd used off the shelf tools and spent their time building something new vs reimplementing so many wheels?
- thesephist 6y agoOP here -- that's definitely a valid argument. If the only reason to do this were raw productivity gains in my work, it /might/ be overkill. I also find it personally satisfying to build and run / talk about DIY tools (and I'm young, I have lots of free time), and there've been lots of extra side-benefits to making a habit of it. For what it's worth -- it doesn't take me much time to build these tools. Most are an afternoon project / a weekend project. So that also makes this more reasonable for me. EDIT: I'm also no stranger to off the shelf tools -- I've shopped around my fair share of todo lists and notes apps :) Just haven't found any that worked the way I liked exactly and allowed me to own my data the way I wanted to.
- haihaibye 6y agoThere are so many todo list apps, maybe the problem isn't building 1 true todo list app but rather a way for everyone to build their own todo list app.
- kevsim 6y agoAgree. When once upon the time, I decided I was going to write a novel, I spent ages finding exactly the right tool that would do the typesetting exactly right and had all the features I just KNEW I needed. Never ended up writing a damn thing. Eventually, popped open Notepad and actually did some writing. Felt amazing to just get started.